On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Kaj Ailomaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 26, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > > We could go even further, and add a bunch of new meta packages for the > > sub-categories we are working on. > > > > So, if we decide to go with only three main categories - audio, video > > and graphics, we can have pretty much one meta for each sub-category. I > > think this would make it easier for people to find certain software too > > using Ubuntu Software Center, or our own installer. > > Photography would still be its own meta - additionally new metas would > > appear, such as 3D graphics, 2D graphics, etc. > > > > Would be less work for one person to be responsible for a sub category > than a main category. And, in that case, I'd like to see people > volunteering for maintaining one or multiple sub categories. > > Every cycle, after the point where we reach Debian import freeze, we > check what has changed in the Ubuntu repo regarding this subcategory, > make some additions/changes if needed and do a quick test to make sure > our selected applications actually work as intended. > > I'm liking this format more and more, the more I think about it. The > downside is, there are more details - but if we can get more people > involved, it's less work load per person, and easier to keep things > apart. > > I've been working on how to create nice lists/tables of packages > belonging to certain. There are three clear sections in Debian: > * sound > * graphics > * video > > And, getting a new list of packages for each cycle should be pretty > trivial. I could do the work of sub categorizing all of the packages > belonging to these three sections, to create tables for each sub > category. > Then, whoever is assigned to maintain a subcategory can use that > list/table to do selections for the sub-meta and the work should just go > much smoother. > > How does that sound? > I think it's a good idea to spread the work. However, I believe we need to have a documented common way of organising so each sub-category follow the same idea so to speak. Or someone should supervise and verify some is not running too far on a new thread. I think Freedesktop would be the way to go. I haven't used menus in a couple of years though so I'm not up to speed at the moment. /Jimmy
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